First International Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine

Preliminary Program

Friday, September 21

     

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

     

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception and Dinner

     

Saturday, September 22

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION I

 

Systems Metabolism and Functional Biomarkers in Health and Disease

Chair: Amanda MacFarlane

9:00 AM

1

Systems biology is the future of human nutrition

Patrick Stover

9:25 AM

2

Phenotypic noise in metabolic systems

Joe Nadeau and Jesse Riordan

9:50 AM

3

Fine-grained insight into an individual’s metabolic state by in vivo stable-isotope labeling.

Karsten Hiller

10:15 AM

4

Metabolomic analyses of indicators of cardiometabolic disease and associations with the gut microbiome and diet

Clary Clish

10:40 AM

5

Metabolic biomarkers of metabolic disease for population and patient stratification

Julian Griffin

11:05 AM

6

The fallacy of using arbitrary safety (uncertainty) factor of “100” to derive upper limits of safe intake for nutrients, such as L-amino acids

Miro Smriga

     

11:20 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION II

Nutrition, gut, and microbiome

Chair: Christian Metallo

12:00 PM

7

The microbiome as a key component of precision nutrition

Rob Knight

12:25 PM

8

Diet, the gut microbiome, and its metabolome in health and disease

Gary Wu

12:50 PM

9

Sphingolipid production by gut microbiota regulates liver ceramide metabolism

Stacey Heaver, Ruth Ley, and Elizabeth Johnson

1:15 PM

10

A host gene-microbe interaction potentially relevant to personalized nutrition

Angela Poole, Julia Goodrich, Nicholas Youngblut, Guillermo Luque, Jessica Sutter, Jillian Waters, Qiaojuan Shi, Mohamed El-Hadidi, Lynn Johnson, Haim Bar, Daniel Huson, James Booth, and Ruth Ley

1:40 PM

11

Microbial systems ecology for identifying key functions driving host-microbiome-diet interactions

Paul Wilmes

2:05 PM

12

Prebiotic diet restores metabolism and reduces risk for Alzheimer’s disease by modulating gut microbiome in an APOE4 mouse model

Lucille Yanckello, Jared Hoffman, Ishita Parikh, Jessie Hoffman, Stefan Green, George Chlipala, and Ai-Ling Lin

     

2:20 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Sunday, September 23

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION III

Biomarkers of Healthy Aging and Metabolic Disease

Chair: Andrew Prentice

9:00 AM

13

Improving metabolic health through precision dietetics

David Threadgill

9:25 AM

14

Lipidomics analysis identifies key regulatory enzymes in health and disease

Michael Wakelam

9:50 AM

15

Unbiased high-throughput screening approaches to combat mitochondrial and metabolic disease

Joeva Barrow, Eduardo Balsa, Meghan Soustek, Francisco Verdeguer, Clint Tavares, Louis Hollingsworth IV, Mark Jedrychowski, Rutger Vogel, Jan Smeitink, Joao Paulo, Steven Gygi, John Doench, David Root, and Pere Puigserver

10:15 AM

16

Cellular aging contributes to failure of cold-induced beige adipocyte formation

Daniel Berry

10:40 AM

17

Metabolic dysfunction and human disease phenotypes

Ralph DeBerardinis

11:05 AM

18

Endogenous synthesis of erythritol, a low calorie sweetener, in humans

Lisa Schlicker, Jean-Pierre Trezzi, Christian Jaeger, Martha Field, Patricia Cassano, Patrick Stover, Karsten Hiller, and Katie Hootman

11:20 AM

19

Enzyme promiscuity drives monomethyl branched-chain fatty acid synthesis in adipose tissues

Martina Wallace, Courtney Green, Lindsay  Roberts, Yujung Lee, Justin McCarville, Janelle Ayres, Daniel Nomura, Rohit Loomba, and Christian Metallo

     

11:35 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION IV

Etiology of Heterogeneity of Response to Nutrients and Diets

Chair: Karsten Hiller

12:00 PM

20

Endogenous production of erythritol and its association with weight gain

Martha Field, Lisa Krämer, and Karsten Hiller

12:25 PM

21

omics-based studies of nutritional needs and metabolic diseases in Chinese

Xu Lin

12:50 PM

22

Circadian dysregulation links nutrition stress and insulin resistance

Chaodong Wu

1:15 PM

23

Twin metabolomics: the key to unlocking complex phenotypes in nutrition research

Aifric O’Sullivan

1:40 PM

24

Implementing precision dietetics to predict metabolic health in a genetically heterogeneous mouse model

Anna Salvador, William Barrington, and David Threadgill

1:55 PM

25

Study of association of RS6923761 polymorphism in GLP1R gene with insulin and c-peptide level in patients with type 2 diabetes

Maria Vulf, Daria Skuratovskaya, Elena Kirienkova, Pavel Zatolokin, and Larisa Litvinova

     

2:10 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Monday, September 24

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION V

Nutrients in Epigenetic Programming and Adaptation

Chair: Martha Field

9:00 AM

26

Nutritional influences on epigenetic programming of the very early human embryo

Andrew Prentice

9:25 AM

27

Epigenetic regulation of POMC as a metastable epiallele

Peter Kuhnen

9:50 AM

28

Using precision nutrition to target epigenetic readers, writers, and erasers: a BET/BRD9 acetyl switch on CCAR2

Roderick Dashwood

10:15 AM

29

Characterizing the role of PKM2 in muscle progenitor cells

Jamie Blum, Brandon Gheller, Henry Le, Seok Eun Jennie Yi, and Anna Thalacker-Mercer

10:30 AM

30

microbial bioactives alter cellular metabolism

Stefan Christen and Sofia Moco

10:45 AM

31

The phytohormone N6-benzyladenosine phosphate is a direct activator of AMP-activated protein kinase

Simona Bartova, Matthew Sanders, Prasad Chaskar, Yann  Ratinaud, Denis  Barron, Kei  Sakamoto, and Sofia Moco

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION VI

Altered Metabolism and Conditional Nutrient Needs in Disease, Trauma and Tissue Regeneration

Chair: Clary Clish

11:30 AM

32

Metabolism and epigenetics: Novel approaches for epilepsy prevention

Detlev Boison

11:55 AM

33

The essentiality of serine and glycine for skeletal muscle regeneration

Anna Thalacker-Mercer, Jamie Blum, and Brandon Gheller

12:20 PM

34

(Non)essential amino acid dependencies in cancer

Oliver Maddocks

12:45 PM

35

Exploiting enzyme promiscuity via targeted nutrition to combat disease

Christian Metallo

1:10 PM

36

Towards IMP 2.0: the Integrated Multi-omics Pipeline refactored using the conda framework for HPC-based applications

Deepti Mittal, Yohan Jarosz, Shaman Narayasamy, Susana Martinez Arbas, Cedric Laczny, Anna Heinzt-Buschart, Patrick  May, and Paul Wilmes

1:25 PM

37

Alzheimer’s disease and APOE genotype associated with metabolites related to metabolic syndrome, mitochondrial dysfunction, and kidney dysfunction

Tyler Hammond, Ishita Parikh, Peter Nelson, Scott McCulloch, and Ai-Ling Lin

1:40 PM

38

Effects of Impaired One Carbon Metabolism on Peripheral Neuropathy in a Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes

Eunice B Awuah, Martha S  Field, and Patrick J Stover

     

1:55 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

   

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:30 PM

8:00 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

     

Tuesday, September 25

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION VII

Precision Nutrition and Enabling Technologies and Comp Modeling

Chair: Patrick Stover

9:00 AM

39

Metabolomics, biobanking, quality control and metabolism research

Thomas Illig

9:25 AM

40

TBD

Corrado Priami

9:50 AM

41

Automatic methods for nutritional assessment, and a case study with soccer players

Dag Johansen, Haavard Johansen, and Lars Brenna

10:15 AM

42

Capturing global responses to nutrient stimuli with quantitative proteomics

Nate Vacanti

10:40 AM

43

Shmt1 knockout in HeLa cells induces upregulation of salvage dTMP synthesis, dUTPase, and repair

James Chon, Martha Field, Jabez Gondokusumo, Asante Quintana, and Patrick Stover

10:55 AM

44

Personalized lifestyle intervention for improving functional health outcomes: LIFE-HOUSE protocol utilizing a tent-umbrella-bucket design

Joseph Lamb, Michael Stone, Deanna Minich, Nikky Contractor, Brent Eck, and Jeffrey Bland

     

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION VIII

Systems Approaches and Challenges in Establishing Nutrient and Dietary Requirements in Heterogeneous Populations 

Chair: Ann Yaktine

11:45 AM

45

Integrating chronic disease into the DRI model: challenges and options

Ann Yaktine

12:10 PM

46

Human metabolic phenotypes assessed by plasma metabolomics

Daniel Hannelore

12:35 PM

47

The role of metabolomics and phenotyping in delivering Precision Nutrition

Lorraine Brennon

1:00 PM

48

The Role of Agriculture in Precision Nutrition

Pam Starke-Reed

1:25 PM

49

From population to personalized nutrition: A paradigm shift for developing recommendations for optimal health

Amanda MacFarlane

1:50 PM

50

Spermicidal efficacy of iodine exposure on male reproductive system: Future perspectives to be explores as non-hormonal male contraceptive

Arijit Chakraborty and Kiran Singh

     

2:05 PM

 

Closing Remarks

     

2:15 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

     

Wednesday, September 26

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     
   

Departure